Draft:Peter Szolovits

Peter Szolovits is a computer science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Career
He is a full professor in the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department (MIT EECS) and a principal investigator at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) who conducts research using methods of artificial intelligence (AI) for problems related to medical decision-making, including using natural language processing to extract data from clinical narratives and design information systems for healthcare institutions and patients.

His work has included developing ML models that can search EHRs for clinically relevant information and generate novel questions for doctors to ask patients. His group has also worked on algorithms that can predict intensive-care-unit stay-times across different electronic health record (EHR) platforms.

Szolovits was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the American College of Medical Informatics, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

He has served as a member of the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board and is the 2013 recipient of the Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence from the American College of Medical Informatics.